Utility functions

Q. 1. ⇒ برسم

بِرْسَامٌ

بِرْسَامٌ, (in the T with fet-ḥ, [بَرْسَامٌ,] Mgh,)A certain malady, or disease,(Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,)well known,(Ṣ, Mṣb,)attended by delirium:(Ḳ:)[in the present day, this term is applied to the pleurisy, as also ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ; and so it is explained by Golius and Freytag; or, as the latter adds, accord. to Avicenna, pleurodyne: but] in some of the books of medicine, it is said to be a tumour,(Mṣb,) or a hot tumour,(TA,)that is incident to the septum which is between the liver and the bowels,[app. meaning the upper parts of the greater and lesser omentum,]and then reaches to the brain:(Mṣb, TA:) also pronounced بِلْسَامٌ: (ISk, Mṣb:)i. q.مُومٌ: (M, TA:) it is an arabicized word; (IDrd, Mgh, Mṣb;) or seems to be so; composed of بَرْ and سَامْ; the former of these, in Persian, signifying the “breast,” or “chest;” and the latter, “death” [and “fire” and “a swelling;” of which three meanings, the second and third are agreeable with the two explanations of برسام given above]: so says Az. (TA.)

بِرْسِيمٌ

بِرْسِيمٌ, with kesr, (Ḳ,) vulgarly pronounced with fet-ḥ to the ب, [بَرْسِيم,](TA,)[Alexandrian trefoil or clover; trifolium Alexandrinum; described by Forskål in his Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. 139; the most common and the best kind of succulent food for cattle grown in Egypt: it is sown when the waters of the inundation are leaving the fields; and yields three crops; the second of which is termedرِبَّةٌ; and so is the third; but this is generally left for seed: when dry, it is termedدَرِيسٌ: if his words have not been perverted by copyists, F explains it as] the grain of theقُرْط, (حَبُّ القُرْط) [but I think it probable that this is a mistranscription, for خَيْرُ القُرْطِ, i. e., the best of the (species of trefoil, or clover, called) قُرْط,]resembling theرُطْبَة[or رَطْبَة], or superior to this latter in size, or quality (أَجَلُّ مِنْهَا): (Ḳ:) the قُرْط resembles the رُطْبَة, [written in the TA without the vowel signs,] but is superior to this latter in size, or quality (اجلّ منها), and larger in the leaves, and is what is called in Persian شَبْذَر[or شَبْدَر]: (AḤn, TA:)it is one of the best kinds of herbage for horses and the like, which fatten upon it.(TA.)

إِبْرِيسَمٌ

إِبْرِيسَمٌ, (M, [and thus written in copies of the Ḳ,]) with kesr to the ر[as well as the ء], accord. to IAạr, (M,)[and] with fet-ḥ to the س; (Ḳ;) or إِبْرَيْسَمٌ; (M;) and [app. إِبْرِيسُمٌ,] with damm to the س; (Ḳ;) or it has three dial. forms; accord. to ISk, it is ابريسِم[app. إِبْرِيسِمٌ]; others say that it is ابريسَم[app. أَبْرَيْسَمٌ], with fet-ḥ; IAạr says that it is إِبْرِيسَمٌ, with kesr to the ء and the ر and with fet-ḥ to the س, and he says that there is not in the language an instance of إِفْعِيلِلٌ, with kesr, but there are instances of إِفْعِيلَلٌ, as إِهْلِيلَجٌ[q. v.] and إِبْرِيسَمٌ; (Ṣ; [but I find that in two copies of that work, and in the L, this passage is mutilated; for it runs thus; “ISk says that it is إِبْرِيسَمٌ, with kesr to the ء and ر, and with fet-ḥ to the س,”, &c.;]) or one of its dial. forms is إِبْرِيسِمٌ, with kesr to the ء and the ر and the س; but ISk disallows this, [or, probably, as appears from what has been said above, we should read here, “accord. to ISk, but others disallow this,”] saying that there is not in the language an instance of افعليل with kesr to the [former]ل, but with fet-ḥ, as إِهْلِيلَجٌ and إطْرِيفَلٌ; and the second form is أَبْرَيْسَمٌ, with fet-ḥ to those three letters; and the third is إِبْرَيْسَمٌ, with kesr to the ء, and fet-ḥ to the ر and the س; (Mṣb;) and IB [appears to indicate the second and third of these forms, for he] says that some pronounce ابريسم with fet-ḥ to the ء and the ر, and some pronounce it with kesr to the ء, and with fet-ḥ to the س; (TA;)Silk; syn. حَرِيرٌ: (M, Ḳ:) or, accord. to some, specially, raw silk:(TA:)[it is said that]حرير is the same as ابريسم: (Mṣb in art. حر:) or dressed silk; syn. ابريسم مَطْبُوخ: (Mgh and Mṣb in that art.:) or stuff wholly composed of silk: or of which the woof is silk: (Mgh in that art., from the Jema et-Tefáreek:)[and it is also said that]قَزَّ is the same as ابريسم: (Ḳ in art. قز:) or a kind thereof: (Ṣ in that art.:) or that whereof ابريسم is made: (Lth, Az, Mṣb, TA, all in that art.:)[medicinal properties are ascribed to it: it is said that]it is exhilarating, warming to the body, moderate in temperament, and strengthening to the sight when used as a collyrium:(Ḳ:) the word is arabicized, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ, [but in the last it is said, after the explanation of the meaning, “or it is arabicized,”]) from [the Persian]ابريشم[i. e. أَبْرِيشَمْ]: (TA:) and is perfectly decl., even if used as a proper name, in the manner of a surname, because it was arabicized in its indeterminate state, not like إِسْحَاقُ, &c., which were arabicized in their determinate state, and are not used by the Arabs indeterminately. (Ṣ.)